![]() ![]() ![]() We learn about the bookstore’s bothersome ghost: Flora, a devoted customer who while alive – as a white woman – craved approval from Tookie and her “fellow Indigenes.” Now Flora’s ghost won’t leave, knocking over displays and splaying books. Louise Erdrich’s 'The Night Watchman' is a rich novel of Native American family, community ![]() Here a reader might wonder if "The Sentence" is on-trend autofiction, but in fact, the novel, in which “Louise” registers only occasionally, is more sidelong and interesting. In fact, exactly like that one, and where “Louise” interviews and hires her. These elements inform both the story and the telling of "The Sentence." Tookie finds her ideal job at a Minneapolis bookshop, a small independent store not unlike the one Erdrich owns in real life. In our own Anishinaabewomin, it includes intricate forms of human relationships and infinite ways to joke.” It’s a pleasure to spend time inside the singular mind of Tookie as narrator, a prickly and devoted Ojibwe woman: “Even though most of us don’t speak our Native languages, many of us act out of a handed-down sense of that language. ![]()
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